I put out my Easter Ducky potholders this month. Love Easter and I love Easter paper piecing!
These Duckies are from my EASTER TABLE RUNNER pattern.
Here are some of my Easter block patterns that sell separately:
Happy Easter Bunny Block and Happy Easter Duckie Block.
The majority of my time this month has been devoted to sewing masks for friends and family.
So far I have given away 100 masks, although shortages of elastic has made this project difficult.
Please stay safe and healthy!
After reading Kathy’s Quilts cute post on “National Pig Day” on March 1(who ever knew?), I realized there must be many more people who have a pig obsession besides me!
Her pig pattern came from Kelli at Seriously I Think It Needs Stitches, where Kelli shares this Pig Block tutorial. This has motivated me to also have a PIG-GIVE-AWAY.
After reading Kathy’s blog about Pig Day, I started thinking about how many times I have created pig related patterns…
“PIG-CASSO”is one of 12 farm animals named after celebrities in the FARMYARD STARS pattern.
After designing the PIG-ABUNGA wall hanging, I had so many requests for that cute pig that it motivated me to create the PIGGY PILLOW.
I also have a pig in my newest book SEW CUTE AND CLEVER FARM AND FOREST ANIMALS.
In honor of National Pig Day, I am giving away 1 free download of my PIGGY PILLOW pattern. All you have to do for a chance to win this download is leave a comment below. The give-away will end next week on Wednesday, March 11.
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I just returned from a little Florida get-away with 2 of my siblings.
After a beautiful week of 80 degrees and sunny skies, I returned home to this…
And now it’s back to designing…
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, I’ve designed a new Gnome.
The LEPRECHAUN GNOME is a sweet little guy with a nose made from a fabric yoyo. So cute! This newest St. Patty’s block will join my other leprechaun creations:
LUCKY LEPRECHAUN is still one of my favorite St. Patty images. The smoke swirls are very suble, and are created from my free motion quilting.
LEPRECHAUN is another cutie. See even more of my St. Pat’s designs HERE.
Please join me this Saturday at the Winter Quilt Show in West Bend, where I will be vending and lecturing on paper piecing.
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I’m sharing some of my favorite patterns that have HEARTS for Valentine’s Day! Enjoy…
The ENOUGH ELEPHANTS pillow and lap quilt are both included in my pattern. These quirky elephants are so easy to paper piece.
This adorable LOAD OF LOVE dump truck would make a super cute pillow for your truck lovers! Those are buttons on the wheels for easy hubcaps. You know I like to keep things easy.
I love my SCALLOPED HEART PILLOW! Designing all the scallops took some time, and I would recommend this project for an intermediate paper piecer. My fond customer Marilyn created this adorable project that I just have to share…
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It’s time to dig out my Valentine pillows. I’m looking forward to some chocolate and flowers! Right?
This is a Valentine doggie block I designed in 2019.
This cutie I designed this year…
Wouldn’t these blocks make cute pillows or potholders? I’m going to try to sew them up before Valentine’s Day.
Both patterns can be found in my ETSY SHOP. I’d love to see what you can create using these sweet pups.
The winner of my CARDINAL WALL HANGING pattern is Nancy B. Congrats to her!
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Great thanks to Carla from “Creatin’ in the Sticks” for all her work arranging today’s Winter Blues blog hop. Since blue has always been my favorite color, it is a joy to participate in this blog. Please don’t forget to leave a comment to participate in my Give Away.
If you are like me, you stave off those winter doldrums by sewing. Let’s start with 2 of the paper pieced CARDINAL BLOCKS from my CARDINAL TABLE RUNNER pattern.
I’m using these two cardinals.
I’ve been wanting to sew some new winter pillows and these blocks will be perfect! My CUTE AND CLEVER FARM AND FOREST ANIMALS book has an adorable 12″ pillow pattern.
See that cute little bunny pillow on the cover of the book? That’s the pillow I will be making with my cardinals.
I found this lovely blue sparkly fabric at JoAnn Fabrics.
I love how they turned out! Here they are in my living room. The little red berries are tiny buttons.
This is the CARDINAL WALL HANGING pattern in my ETSY SHOP if you are interested.
I will be GIVING AWAY a digital copy of this pattern to one lucky person who LEAVES A COMMENT BELOW. The winner will be announced the week after the Winter Blues Blog Hop.
Thanks so much for visiting our hop! Please visit the other bloggers participating.
Here is the schedule for the week:
Monday, January 20th
Just Let Me Quilt
Mary Mack Made Mine
VROOMANS QUILTS
Just Because Quilts
Kathleen McMusing
Den syende himmel
Beaquilter
Tuesday, January 21st
Quilted Delights
Homespun Hannah’s Blog
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Quilting & Learning: What a Combo
Life in the Scrapatch
PamelaQuilts
Home Sewn By Us
Wednesday, January 22nd
Little Bunny Quilts
Ms P Designs USA
Quilt Schmilt
Karen’s Korner
Made By Marney
Podunk Pretties
Sunshine in the Attic
Thursday, January 23rd
Websterquilt
Storied Quilts
Patchwork Breeze
Seams To Be Sew
HeARTsCreations
DesertSky Quilting
Friday, January 24th
MooseStashQuilting
Selina Quilts
LimeLeaves Design
Karrin’s Crazy World
Sew Many Yarns
Domestic Felicity
DayBrook Designs
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Some super sweet customers have been sharing photos of adorable projects they have created using my paper piece patterns. I LOVE to see their fun creations.
Bella is a first time paper piecer. She entered her CORGI quilt in her 4H competition and won first place. I love how she repeated the dog blocks in an Andy Warhol Pop Art inspired composition.
Sharon created this awesome neutral colored Dog and Cat quilt. She has incorporated blocks not only from me, but from lots of designers. This makes the quilt very interesting, since it’s not just one designer’s view point.
This is cuteness overload…Lori has made this adorable dog pillow for her sweet dog, Bear.
I am in love with Jennifer’s festive red, white, and blue Chihuahua!
Here’s a photo of Bella, cutest little Labradoodle ever. This is my girl friend’s pet, and she wants a memory pillow of lovely Bella. Sweet Bella is slowly loosing her eyesight.
LABRADOODLE BELLA is my newest dog pattern. Here’s the pillow that I made, too!
And here’s another new dog block to add to my collection of over 65 different dog breeds, the AFGHAN HOUND.
Coming soon is the WINTER BLUES BLOG HOP, a collection of bloggers and artists sharing projects done with the color blue. Can’t wait!
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It’s that time of year…put away the Christmas decorations and let’s decorate using items that will be cute until Easter. Penguins work for me!
These super sweet penguins wearing a cute collection of different hats make a fun wall hanging or table topper. The penguins are paper pieced, and the flowers are appliqued.
I call these “Belly Button Penguins”. I made mine into potholders, but they would make great mug rugs too!
Have fun paper piecing this super easy Penguin Pillow.
Here is a FREE PENGUIN PATTERN just for you! Just click HERE for the free downloadable pattern to paper piece the Hearty Penguin block below.
This is also a cute block for Valentine’s projects.
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Hiking just 2 weeks ago on Arthur’s Rock near Fort Collins, CO. Beautiful! Now it’s back to work designing more holiday patterns.
Hot off of my design table is the RED TRUCK WITH PRESENTS. This adorable little red truck pairs nicely with my LITTLE RED TRUCK block from last Christmas.
I love them together as potholders or pillows.
My friend Shelley used photos of her grand kids in the windows. Super cute!
My Gnome obsession is over the top. Here’s a GNOME WITH MUSHROOMS block pattern that makes an adorable pillow.
I’m loving designing for the holidays, and will be sharing lots more soon…
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I am so excited to be part of the 2019 Virtual Cookie Exchange and Blog Hop hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt. I hope you will visit the other bloggers and enjoy their many yummy cookie recipes.
I am a paper piece pattern designer from Wisconsin, and I LOVE to create holiday patterns. Last Christmas I designed this HOLIDAY BUDDIES table topper .
I love the Caroler, and thought he needed a caroling partner.
This is my CAROLING DOGGIE.
These CAROLING BUDDIES would make an adorable set of holiday potholders.
Let’s make some cute as can be Christmas cut out cookies to match my new potholders. My cookie recipe collection has been growing over the years. Some of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes were shared by friends and co-workers. The recipe I am sharing with you is for Christmas cut-out cookies and was shared by my secretary at school, Marge. I have always loved these cut outs, and they work especially well for thicker cut outs, which are my favorites! You can click on the title of the cookie to get a downloadable PDF version for your recipe files.
Mix sugar and butter. Add egg and flavorings, mix thoroughly. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in. Refrigerate 2 hours (I cheat here).
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough into “manageable” amount to roll on lightly floured surface.
Cut with cookie cutters. Place on lightly greased cookie sheets.
Bake7-8 minutes.
Cool and frost with your favorite frosting. I am going to cheat and buy some canned vanilla frosting.
All paper pieced patterns are available on my Made By Marney ETSY SHOP. CYBER WEEK SALE: Most patterns are 20% off until December 3.
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If you haven’t see the previous day’s blogger’s here is the full schedule. It’s not too late to collect all the yummy recipes.
December 2nd
December 3rd
Barb – Hosted by Just Let Me Quilt
December 4th
December 5th
Pumpkin
Patch Patterns & Quilting
Websterquilt
December 6th
I want to thank Carol for hosting this fun hop and letting me be a part of it.
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